The Pixel 2 XL is a perfect evolution of the Pixel XL, and not so much in its external appearance, made of aluminum with a waterproof and dustproof glass zone, but in its hardware. The phone includes a powerful Snapdragon 835 eight-core Kryo 280 processor with an Adreno 540 GPU, plus 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB of storage. As usual in Google phones, it does not have a micro-SD reader. The screen is 6-inch POLED type, with a resolution of 2880 × 1440 px, taking advantage of much more front to reduce the screen frames, and has color quality of 100% of the DCI-P3 range, so they look superbly Looking at the front there are also two stereo speakers. The battery of 3520 mAh gives a good autonomy to the device, without shining, but it has fast charge through USB type C that in 15 minutes will give you up to 7 hours of autonomy.
The rear camera Its high-quality 12 Mpx optics combined with optical and digital image stabilization, make it stand out on its own whether taking pictures or recording video. It is above the cameras of the iPhone 8 Plus, Galaxy Note 8 or the U11. It does a great job in low light situations, and captures a maximum amount of detail in good light.
The phone has a tray for nano-SIM, but also includes an eSIM chip for provisioning by operators that are compatible with it, which avoids the need to use a SIM to use the phone. It comes with Android 8.0 Oreo pre-installed, and Google promises three years of software updates and security patches for this phone.
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Apple iPhone X
Apple joins phones with almost no screen frames with the iPhone X, which is also the largest screen iPhone to date, as it is 5.8 inches. Being of OLED type and great color quality DCI-P3, compatible with HDR, both HDR10 and Dolby Vision, and a resolution of 2436 × 1125 pixels, and 625 nits of maximum brightness. Maintains the 3D Touch force sensors.
The processor is more powerful than the Snapdragon 835, with the A11 Bionic being 30% more powerful in all its six cores. With 3 GB of RAM and 64 GB of storage, the fluidity of the operating system and applications is assured. Its battery is 2716 mAh that, along with the optimizations of iOS, gives you an autonomy of about ten hours of screen use watching videos or browsing. The camera is tied with that of Mate 10 and behind the camera of Pixel 2, although it is the only one capable of recording video at 4K and 60 FPS. The rear camera is a double camera of 12 Mpx, one for telephoto and one for optical zoom, with apertures f / 1.8 and f / 2.4, and double optical image stabilizer. The front is 7 Mpx, and allows various additional effects such as blurring.
Also the front camera is used, in combination with other additional sensors, for face unlocking via Face ID, which is more secure than Touch ID, the finger unlocking. The phone has a rear glass to allow wireless charging compatible with Qi systems, it is water approved, it also has a fast charge.
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Samsung Galaxy Note 8
The Galaxy Note8 is Samsung's flagship phablet of 2017, and has become the best phone on the market at a high price. It is a mobile for the professional environment, and its RRP of 1010 euros proves it. Includes the almost borderless screen of the Galaxy S8, which in this model has a size of 6.3 inches with a resolution of 2960 × 1440 pixels. It is of great color quality, and also compatible with the HDR10 format.
It again includes the S-Pen, a digital pen to handle the phone in new ways, which leads Samsung to be more productive. The processors chosen, according to the market, are the Snapdragon 835 and the Exynos 8895, accompanied by 6 GB of LPDDR4 RAM and 64 to 256 GB of ultrafast UFS storage.
There are notable improvements in the rear camera, which now has a secondary objective, also 12 Mpx for telephoto work, allowing an x2 optical zoom, and x10 digital, with optical image stabilizer and aperture f / 1.7. The front camera is 8 Mpx with aperture f / 1.7. The camera software also improves to give greater control of the image quality to the user.
The battery is slightly lower capacity than the Galaxy S8 +, which happens to be 3300 mAh, compatible with fast charging and also wireless, since the rear is glass, and its structure is aluminum. It has unlock by iris scanner and fingerprint scanner. It comes standard with Android 7.1.1, but with an update to Android 8.0 Oreo secured.
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Huawei Mate 10
The Mate 10 is a high-end phablet in which Huawei has maintained the usual design of their phones, but has significantly improved the processor with the Kirin 970. It is a system on chip (SoC) quad-core Cortex-A73 at 2.4 GHz and four Cortex-A53 at 1.8 GHz, with GPU Mali-G71 MP12 at 900 MHz. Its main advantage is the inclusion of a neural processor unit or NPU for artificial intelligence calculations at 1.92 TFLOPS, which improves the treatment of images or other , according to what the developers of the applications decide.
The screen of the Mate 10 is of type IPS of 5.9 inches with resolution 2560 × 1440 pixels, whereas that of the Mate 10 Pro takes advantage of the frontal one with a size of 6 inches with resolution 2160 × 1080 of type OLED. The quality of the screen is really good in both cases, although the OLED provides better blacks and better color in general, despite having a lower resolution. The phone is made water and dust proof with IP53 certificate, or IP67 in the Mate 10 Pro.
The rear camera, powered by the NPU, is dual camera, 20 Mpx monochrome and 12 Mpx RGB type with aperture f / 1.6, stabilized optical image and zum hybrid, and manufactured with Leica. The front camera is 8 Mpx, of remarkable quality. They have a minimum of 4 GB of RAM, 64 GB of storage, micro-SD card reader, NFC, Bluetooth 5.0, 802.11 ac wifi, and 4000 mAh battery that gives a good autonomy.
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Apple iPhone 8
The iPhone 8 maintains the design that Apple has used since the iPhone 6, but this time the back of the device is made of glass instead of aluminum. The reason is the inclusion of Qi-type wireless charging, compatible with any charger of this type that is on the market.
One of the changes with respect to the iPhone 7 is on the screen, since it has high dynamic range (HDR) images with compatible multimedia content (HDR10 and Dolby Vision), and has 600 nits of maximum brightness. For the rest, it's still the same 4.7-inch screen.
The processor on this occasion is an A11 Bionic, which is the most powerful processor for phones there is, well above the Snapdragon 835, and also in the GPU section. The camera has improved, being 12 Mpx with video capture at 4K and 60 FPS, and slow motion at 1080p and 240 FPS. The iPhone 8 Plus model includes a secondary rear camera for telephoto work, but otherwise it is practically the same camera.
The iPhone 8 maintains the Lightning connector for recharging, uses Bluetooth 5.0 and Advanced LTE, with versions of 64 and 256 GB of internal storage, and also keeps the fingerprint reader on the front start button of the phone, and the screen with sensors of pressure.
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Motorola Moto Z2 Force
The Moto Z2 Force that follows the tradition of the Force series of resisting falls and blows very well, with a structure that absorbs well the impacts, and the screen is less brittle than that of other phones. In its design Motorola again dispenses with the 3.5-inch connector, and Moto Mods can be installed on its back. The USB type C connector allows fast charging of 15 W of its battery of only 2730 mAh, has NFC, wifi 802.11 ac, and a fingerprint reader on the front. There are mods that add a little thickness to changes of 1200 mAh additional, and another of 3490 mAh. The screen is 5.5 inches QHD.
The included processor is a Snapdragon 835 eight-core Kryo at 2.35 GHz, with an Adreno 540 GPU, accompanied by 4 GB of RAM, 64 GB of storage and expansion by micro-SD up to 2 TB. It has a dual rear camera of 12 Mpx each with Sony IMX 386 sensors, an aperture f / 2.0, and a pixel size of 1.25 μm. The secondary rear camera is monochrome and allows depth effects, and Motorola accompanies Android 7.1.1 pre-installed from an advanced camera application. You can record video at 4K and 30 FPS. The front camera is quite normal, 5 Mpx with wide angle, and aperture f / 2.2.
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